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Had hopes for this one, being on the History Channel, but it is so damn corny. It's kind of addicting in a way that you want to see how bad can they make this. The director must have read Directing for Dummies written by Edward D. Wood Jr. in his prep to do this.

Had hopes for this one, being on the History Channel, but it is so damn corny. It's kind of addicting in a way that you want to see how bad can they make this. The director must have read Directing for Dummies written by Edward D. Wood Jr. in his prep to do this.

Some years ago I viewed a interview with Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy. The topic of censorship came up and how directors worked around it before the motion picture rating system came into play. He went on to say if they were to film the Bible exactly the way it is written it would receive a X rating! Given that it would have been better if they made it a theatrical release in the style of "How The West Was Won" with multiple directors. Think of the possibilities. John McTiernan directing the action scenes and Paul Verhoeven directing the love scenes.

Had hopes for this one, being on the History Channel, but it is so damn corny. It's kind of addicting in a way that you want to see how bad can they make this. The director must have read Directing for Dummies written by Edward D. Wood Jr. in his prep to do this.

I got it DVR'ed but thanks for the heads up. I'm not even going to waste my time watching it.

For the most part, the show got only mixed reviews. As a presentation of the Old Testament and the New Testament it was very incomplete but what are you going to do in the time available???

IMHO it would take at least 36 hours to offer a reasonably proper presentation of just the stories of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament (with a lot of fades if it isn't on Cinemax or Showtime). And you can't avoid making some controversial translation choices. I won't even talk about the how political issues of the 4th, 16th, and 17th centuries shaped the Christian biblical canon, or how it's stories differ from Jewish and Muslim writings.

Understanding all the issues, they did ok IMHO.

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

I watched the part about Moses finding out he's slave trade. All heavy-handed exposition and grade-B acting. Brutal stuff. I guess Christians will find it inspiring. But mainly bad actors will find it inspiring that you can suck and still get work in Bible epics!

BTW, the actor they chose for Moses is incredibly weird looking--looks like an alien or something. Maybe that's a subplot!

Every bible hero, so far, is coming off like some kind of wacko. It went from kinda funny to annoying in only two episodes.

I have to agree. They are portrayed as being rather stupid, or just weird. I thought it would give me an additional insight from a different point of view, but it's not accurate enough for that, and as you say, it has very quickly become annoying and irritating.

Luke

Sagaciously eschew obfuscating sesquipedalianisms.

Evil is charming and beautiful. It makes you doubt yourself. It asks for one small compromise after another until it whittles you down, and it functions best when no one believes in it.--from Joan of Arcadia

Saw a few segments and thought it was a poor production. I had high hopes but I would not waste the time watching. Trying to sync the OT and NT with our own modern perspective is hard. This mini-series failures to me were not only the screen writers perspective but also because it was too low-budget.

Watching the death of Samson and the "thousands" of Philistines was awful to watch because all one could see was about 2-dozen actors on screen a bad temple set. Also the sets looks like something from a “C” - grade version of the movie “Godzila” circa 1960.

When are they going to do The Quran? Muhammad in the Battle of the Ditch personally beheads 900 Jews in one night, tossing their headless bodies into the ditch dug around Medina. Then he divides up their women taking half. Then he goes back to his 9 year old wife (they could cast Honey Booboo!). That's entertainment. The Quran is like an X-rated version of Game of Thrones on crack. Makes the Bible look like Leave it to Beaver.

I have to agree. They are portrayed as being rather stupid, or just weird. I thought it would give me an additional insight from a different point of view, but it's not accurate enough for that, and as you say, it has very quickly become annoying and irritating.

Go ahead. Just *try* to portray Moses being lost in the desert for 40 years without making him look like a clueless idiot dying for someone to invent the GPS.